[Users] Why did you do a fork of Sylpheed?

[Paul]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:25:04 +0100 (BST)
"N. W" <nw9165-3201 at yahoo.com> wrote: 

> What goals does Claws Mail have that Sylpheed does not have?

For a start, there is no proprietary version of Claws Mail.

> And why did the syncing stopped happening?

I'll be brief. We worked closely at first. Claws' new features would
be added to Sylpheed when they were tested and stable. A lot of
the good features in Sylpheed first happened in Claws. Then there came
a time that new features - good features, that people wanted - were
not being transferred to Sylpheed. Over a period of months I tried to
find out why this was - up to this point communication with Hiroyuki
had been frequent - but the only response was silence. By this time
Claws had worked up a momentum of its own, so we thought, OK, let's
continue with this and no longer be concerned with Sylpheed - i.e. we
forked.

I believe that that is a good summary.

with regards

Paul


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